In large facilities or buildings, it can be challenging to monitor rodent traps, especially when deployed in hard-to-reach or infrequently-visited locations. These low-cost devices must be monitored manually and regularly to ensure that the trap is empty, or needs to be serviced, if full.

This project provides a simple, low-configuration, LoRa solution with cellular or Wi-Fi cloud backhaul, that can be used to monitor a set of mouse-traps around a building or facility. Much of the hardware needed comes included with the Sparrow Developer Kit, and simple modifications to a humane indoor/outdoor mouse trap can be made to add a motion-detection capability. On the cloud side, this app uses notifications via a Twilio route to inform the deployer if motion is detected, or a sensor battery is low.